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Censorship is the suppression or deletion of material, which may be considered objectionable, harmful or sensitive, as determined by a censor.

Typically censorship is done by governments, religious and secular groups, corporations, or the mass media, although other forms of censorship exist. The withholding of classified information, commercial secrets, intellectual property, and privileged lawyer-client communication is not usually described as censorship within the censoring community, though can be by outside observers. The term "censorship" often carries with it a sense of untoward, inappropriate or repressive secrecy.

Censorship is closely related to the concept of freedom of speech. It is often associated with human rights abuse, dictatorship, and repression.

The term "censorship" is often used as a pejorative term to signify a belief that a group controlling certain information is using this control improperly or for its own benefit, or preventing others from accessing information that should be made readily accessible (often so that conclusions drawn can be verified).

[edit] Self-censorship

Self-censorship is censorship imposed not by an outside agency, such as a government, but which a person or institution places voluntarily on themself.

Self-censorship is often practiced by film producers, film directors, publishers, news anchors, journalists, musicians, artists and authors.

[edit] See also

• FLMASK (image masking tool)
• Censorship on Wikipedia
• Self-censorship on Wikipedia

This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Censorship. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Spanking Art, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.

This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Self-censorship. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Spanking Art, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.